1st Edition

US Foreign Policy in World History

By David Ryan Copyright 2000
268 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US foreign policy, whilst also explaining the policymakers' grand ideologies and the ideas that have shaped US diplomacy. US Foreign Policy explores... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Constructions; Chapter 1 The Empire for Liberty; Chapter 2 Spheres of Influence; Chapter 3 Imperialisms; Part 2 The American Century; Chapter 4 Constructing the American Century; Chapter 5 Arsenal for Democracy and Self-Determination?; Chapter 6 Containing the East; Integrating the West; Chapter 7 Revolution and Development in the Cold War; Chapter 8 Confronting ‘Evil’ and Imagined Empires; Chapter 9 Concluding Through Contemporary Dilemmas;

Biography

Principal Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, Leicester